I have a little time, today, so here's a quick one I found that I really like. It's called the Parable of the Sheep by Charles Riggs. I found it over at Abhijeet Singh's Site, which focuses on firearms laws in India.

Seems to me, if you can't weather a storm, you probably shouldn't be out in it to begin with. If you're so fragile, that you break because of a downturn in the economy, you probably shouldn't be in business. Instead, our governments have decided that they should fund these inefficient and unsustainable businesses. Why? To save a few jobs for a few more weeks. Do they never learn?

There are some things that people don't really like to talk about. There's a good chance that a few people will hate me for just writing my thoughts. Not everyone feels like Unions do a great deal to help things along. Some people feel like they're just paying another tax into another bottomless pit. Unlike their taxes, though, they aren't getting anything in return. Before I go much further, though, let me clarify some personal definitions, to help you follow where I'm coming from:

There is, as I write this, an attempt to overthrow our Canadian government. The 3 parties that lost in our October 13 election, the Liberals, the NDP, and the Bloc Québécois, are attempting to join in a "coalition" to defeat the party that which currently holds power, the Conservatives. The way our electoral system works, the party with the most seats in parliament, holds power and declares who the Prime Minister will be. This is all well and good, unless the winning party does not make up more than half of those seats. If you have the most seats, but that number is fewer than half of the seats in parliament (which equals 308), then you comprise a minority government. If you have the most seats and have more than half of those seats, then you comprise a majority government.

Yes, I know. I've been absent for far too long. Unfortunately, it seems this is the way it's going to be for a little while. On December 2 we welcomed our second child into the family and, with that, have been extremely busy trying to find a routine that works for all of us. Hunter seems to be feeling ignored, Landon wants to sleep (at least until we want to do the same), I had to go back to work and Melinda sure can't do it all. This site was the one area that I could pull some time out of to try and help out more.